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ConsenSys' Ben Edgington On The Future Of Ethereum After The Merge

The Defiant - DeFi Podcast

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The Merge of Ethereum Clients and Execution Clients

We've brought together two ethereum clients. So any one who is participating in the network in any way ed needs to run a client, or if you a, even if you want to send a transaction, you have to send your transaction to a client. And we've been running this proof of stake network, this beacon chain, for since december 20 twentiet and it's accumulated, am 13 million a eath of stake securing it. But throughout most of that time, it's only been sustaining itself. It hasn't been running transactions at all. There's been no contracts on it and so forth. With the merge, what we did is we combine the consensus client with the

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